Iran: We Stole All Secrets From US Drone

An Iranian military commander claimed Monday that the country has stolen all the secrets held by a high-tech American surveillance drone that crashed in Iran last year, according to Iranian news reports.

"All the intelligence in this drone has been completely decoded and extracted and we know each and every step it has taken," said Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Division for the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, according to an English-language report by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency.

Another Iranian outlet, Press TV, reported that Hajizadeh said that data gleaned from the drone showed that it was not spying on the Iranian nuclear program – a story Hajizadeh said the Americans had spread "as an excuse for hostile practices."

The RQ-170 Sentinel drone, a classified unmanned surveillance craft produced by defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin, was on a CIA mission when it mysteriously crashed in Iranian territory last December, according to U.S. officials at the time. Days after the crash, Press TV broadcast video of what appeared to be the drone propped up but in good condition. Iranian officials said then they were going to set about analyzing the advanced aircraft.

At the time of the crash, American officials said that the drone had been operating over Afghanistan when its operators lost control, after which it floated into Iranian airspace. Iranian officials said their country's electronic warfare experts had been able to take control of the drone and bring it down -- a claim disputed by Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby, who said the drone was not taken down by "hostile activity of any kind."

The bat-wing shaped craft is designed to dodge enemy radar and slip unnoticed into hostile territory to gather information or support operations on the ground. It was reportedly used to keep tabs on the man believed to be Osama bin Laden during the Navy SEAL mission that took out the terror leader in Pakistan in May.

Hajizadeh also reportedly said today that a surveillance drone sent by Hezbollah to spy in Israel in October was "an old product of Iran" and featured none of the technology allegedly gleaned from the RQ-170.

Representatives from the CIA and the U.S. military did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this report.

Yeah, I don't believe the Iranians decoded a damn thing or that the U.S. drone accidently went over into Iranian airspace. I do find it plausible that the Iranian's hacked and landed the drone as there was hardly any damage to a craft that supposedly fell from 10,000+ feet.

ETA: I've seen that some of these drones have automatic landing procedures should they lose contact with their pilot. So maybe this drone was 'confused' as to where it was exactly and landed itself. You are right Kathy, both sides are lying through their teeth.

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Another Iranian outlet, Press TV, reported that Hajizadeh said that data gleaned from the drone showed that it was not spying on the Iranian nuclear program – a story Hajizadeh said the Americans had spread "as an excuse for hostile practices."...

...At the time of the crash, American officials said that the drone had been operating over Afghanistan when its operators lost control, after which it floated into Iranian airspace.

Story contradicts itself. Which was it?

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For all we know we intentionally crashed it so as they tried to hack it we could hack them.

We have no idea what's really going on and never will.

Why do so many people say "we" when they are referring to the government or some government agency? "We" don't control the actions of these agencies.

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what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.

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The U2 spy plane had a self destruct button on it. It supposedly had a delay, but the rumor among the U2 pilots was that the delay was milliseconds. That's probably why Gary Powers didn't push it and eventually got captured. Self preservation is a strong instinct in humans. That begs the question, why didn't the drone have a self destruct?

The U2 spy plane had a self destruct button on it. It supposedly had a delay, but the rumor among the U2 pilots was that the delay was milliseconds. That's probably why Gary Powers didn't push it and eventually got captured. Self preservation is a strong instinct in humans. That begs the question, why didn't the drone have a self destruct?

Seems like the U2 wouldn't have needed to have a self destruct button on it if they had just made it so the plane would self destruct once the ejection seat had safely removed the pilot.

You have posed a good question, why didn't the drone self destruct once the pilot had lost control of it?

You have posed a good question, why didn't the drone self destruct once the pilot had lost control of it?

the drone is set to return to the airfield it launched from.
iran overrode the GPS signal getting the the drone (ground based systems blasting GPS at the drone), and the drone thought it was landing at the afghan airfield. the iranian airfield was a bit higher in elevation, which hurt some parts of the landing gear, hence the black skirt.

the drone is set to return to the airfield it launched from.
iran overrode the GPS signal getting the the drone (ground based systems blasting GPS at the drone), and the drone thought it was landing at the afghan airfield. the iranian airfield was a bit higher in elevation, which hurt some parts of the landing gear, hence the black skirt.

Yeah, but that's so indirect it doesn't really justify the use of "We", in my grammatically nit-picky opinion.

Originally Posted by Torchbearer

what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.

My music/art page is here"government is the enemy of liberty"-RPEphesians 6:12 (KJV)For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Honestly, I hope they really did discover all the secrets from the drone. Maybe, just maybe, this will ever so slightly make the fight Iran crowd at least a little bit hesitant about attacking them. But, knowing how dumb they are, I doubt it.

The Iranian who is quoted doesn't use the word "stole." The journalist does, in a perfectly matter-of-fact way, both in the article and the headline.

How in the world is that theft?

True, they stole nothing. They were invaded by a hostile foreign aircraft. They didn't steal it or anything from it. They might have learned many things from it, how significant those discoveries are is the question. I don't think it is very significant at all.